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/*
 * $Header: /home/jerenkrantz/tmp/commons/commons-convert/cvs/home/cvs/jakarta-commons//httpclient/src/examples/PostXML.java,v 1.13 2004/05/12 20:43:53 olegk Exp $
 * $Revision: 480424 $
 * $Date: 2006-11-29 06:56:49 +0100 (Wed, 29 Nov 2006) $
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import java.io.File;

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.FileRequestEntity;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.RequestEntity;

/**
 *
 * This is a sample application that demonstrates
 * how to use the Jakarta HttpClient API.
 *
 * This application sends an XML document
 * to a remote web server using HTTP POST
 *
 * @author Sean C. Sullivan
 * @author Ortwin Glueck
 * @author Oleg Kalnichevski
 */
public class PostXML {

    /**
     *
     * Usage:
     *          java PostXML http://mywebserver:80/ c:\foo.xml
     *
     *  @param args command line arguments
     *                 Argument 0 is a URL to a web server
     *                 Argument 1 is a local filename
     *
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        if (args.length != 2) {
            System.out.println(
                    "Usage: java -classpath <classpath> [-Dorg.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.defaultlog=<loglevel>] PostXML <url> <filename>]");
            System.out.println("<classpath> - must contain the commons-httpclient.jar and commons-logging.jar");
            System.out.println("<loglevel> - one of error, warn, info, debug, trace");
            System.out.println("<url> - the URL to post the file to");
            System.out.println("<filename> - file to post to the URL");
            System.out.println();
            System.exit(1);
        }
        // Get target URL
        String strURL = args[0];
        // Get file to be posted
        String strXMLFilename = args[1];
        File input = new File(strXMLFilename);
        // Prepare HTTP post
        PostMethod post = new PostMethod(strURL);
        // Request content will be retrieved directly
        // from the input stream
        RequestEntity entity = new FileRequestEntity(input, "text/xml; charset=ISO-8859-1");
        post.setRequestEntity(entity);
        // Get HTTP client
        HttpClient httpclient = new HttpClient();
        // Execute request
        try {
            int result = httpclient.executeMethod(post);
            // Display status code
            System.out.println("Response status code: " + result);
            // Display response
            System.out.println("Response body: ");
            System.out.println(post.getResponseBodyAsString());
        } finally {
            // Release current connection to the connection pool once you are done
            post.releaseConnection();
        }
    }
}